Version compatibility: Debian vs Ubuntu

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 27 10:44:55 EST 2010


Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists at googlemail.com> writes:

> I am currently running Gnucash within Linux (Debian Lenny) and would like to
> try switching to using Ubuntu Linux. However due to Debian's conservative
> release policy the Gnucash version in Debian Lenny is 2.2.6 whereas the one
> in Ubuntu is 2.2.9. I can happily switch to Ubuntu and use that for a trial
> period but I am concerned that if I decide to revert to using Debian Lenny I
> will need to go back to version 2.2.6 with a set of accounts modified with
> version 2.2.9.
>
> Looking at Gnucash's list of changes on the website, I can't find anything
> between these 2 versions which implies that the file format has changed but
> I would appreciate someone confirming that there will be no issues going
> back to 2.2.6.
>
> Gnucash is a must-have application for me and I can't afford to take the
> risk of not being able to use my accounts file.

2.2.6-2.2.9 is 100% compatible.

> Russell

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-derek

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